The links between James Bond and Aston Martin are long and immensely rich. Who can forget the myriad of ways in which various editions of this quintessentially British car have been driven in dramatic chases throughout the history of 007 films?

Even the most recent movies have paid homage to this tradition, with a vintage version featuring in Skyfall as he fled London to Scotland – albeit that anyone who knows the Highlands will know he was on the A82 driving past the unmistakable shape of Buachaille Etive Mor, not along the A9 as the film stated.